The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-29
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ONCE, Nos. rs and ct Fourteenth Street.
AN ENTISCr VOLCANO.
nit. Shasta and Its Wonderful Crster-4
Letter from lIu Maxwell.
Special Correspondence Of The 1nltliigan1.
The two nights and parts Of three deyi
that l spent In tha.c city Of Portland, Ore
gon, gave me o pretty general idea Of tn
city ; and in that Tina I cav AS much Q
itas I cared to see. Indeed, l waa aatla
fed within two hou.a aitor my arrival
and would have taken my departure nex
morning, had l been able to travel. Blu
that night l wpB set upon by pneumonia
and spent tho next day In bed. But OF
the third day l wss ready for new territory
and departed In a boEt up the Willamette
river.
! had seen enough Of Portlsnd 10 Hatisf,
me tina. 1t was q city too dead to ever bt
r%esurreeted until Gsb,iel's trumpet
sounds In the last day, 1t and Annapolis
Nd, and Hum and Tyre ought to DO Gel
down IN chronology aaths four dead cities
two modern and two ancient. The gtre0tt
Of Portland are paved with old planks,
broken, warped, full OF knot.holes and
Hplintere, and the honsea have u Btropa
family .eacmblanCs Of tho old adobs walls
at FL PAso dol Norle, IN Mexico, bull!
three hundred years ago.
l,naS3tnnl~ T MT n,r,S e.. D..I.-l
co soon 90 | was abba, and wss Ia a short
time eteam!Dg up the Willamttte. Up to
this time | had not decided which way !
Wonld strike, or to what plsce | would 10,
further than thGt l wouId kSep aSsy from
cltiea end town1 IS much as possible; for,
to mo Il strange city 10 The nost miserable
place In the world. al! tho citiss apd
towns In thin region yers strange to me.
But my younger brother, Oyfup, wandered
through this region about two yesrs ago,
and at a email toTu loma two hundred
milea Gou.h OF Portland ha had q strange
experience. Stopping at tho town, lie
lik ed ths place and expressed bis intention
Of staying there forever. Thereupon the
people took N fancy to him, and the next
week elected him tYuntae OF tho town
school. Within a few dsyB he couldn't
usres with the two other truntees, aud Ia
the melee that followed, he pounded them
both, and then picked up his vsliae and
skipped over the border into California
before the law could got its clutches on
him. Since thep lie has returned to West
Virginia and got married. Calling thegs
things to mind, I decided to so to the
eame town and $50 il the same fortune
would favor mo.
Seriously, l lnads up my mind 10 visit
that came region 10 ste the Rogue River
Valley. Then l would mako my way to
the Lava Beds, the scene oil tho ModCC
"sr eo,ne ten or fifteen yeata ago, and
from there would 30 TO Mount Shasta.
10 carry the rcsol ption into e(feat, !
LETT the Willamette river at the frpt town,
and thence made my way on foot to the
nearc0t railroad station, and took psssase
aoulh|srd through tho finest agricultural
districts in Oregon, A ride OF eighteen
hours brought me to the RoSne river,
which did not nearly come up to my OK.
pactations 50 I passed on aonth IthToush
the town whe.o my brother had had bis
%ad!enture) and suddenly, about noon, this
train stopped, and I Wns told that we bad
reached the end oiths railroad.
Tho end OF the railroad, and I was
landed no place, except in o wide, broken
valley, on n side Of which rose the for.
~estrcoVored Siakiycn Mountains, and on
sill sides end all over blexed and shimmer.
ed the torrid heat Of 6 ummer Gun, A
few houses clumped together against tho
face Of one OF the bill in the distance sn.
IsEerel tho nama Of town, and the low
passengers who had cone loHn on tho
train with me, aud hau been dumped ont
aa l had been, were Masking thci. way
toward thiH town. It VAS my purpose to
go to tho Lava Beds and from there 10 Mt,
Shasta; but l had not expected to resch
tho end OF tho railroad 80 econ. Il ven
yet nssr two hundred milea TO Mt. Shasta,
By way of tho Lava Bsds, and l knew
very we'll that there S'ss no railroad. Tbs
unexpected predicalnent in which l found
myself somewhat coniuseG ne, and l sat
down on the platform to study out some
plan Tor future proceedings.
step I would take would DO to 90 iuto IhO
town and get my dinner, which plan was
quickly carried into execution. After
dinner l began to inquire how far it wan
20 the Lava Beds, snd how ono could best
got there. The diatenca, thsy said, was
eighty or one hundred mileg, no road but
trails over the mountains, aud these al.
most impossible to find, and tho only WAY
to make the journey Has to walk. or rida
q mule. l MSS physically unsbla 10 walk
at that time, aEd l would not ride q mule.
Had | been in GO good health rs ! usually
am, would have get out on foot, and
would have made this trip OF two hundred
miles to Mt. Shasta in q weak, or q little
over. They told me that I could never in
the world find tho way through the Lava
Beds, but ! thought nothing OF this, as
have many 8 time been in wild reyiona
Whero they said I could find no path, but
| always got through aomehow. But the
lingering symptoms OF pneumonia vsyued
me that ought not to a.ays upon such q
journey alone, and after many regrets and
wsvering resolutions, I at last decided 20
postpone the Lava BEDS expedition ill
aome1uture time, aEd to 90 to Mt. Shsssa
SO a compromise. TO tho latter place
there wss o public road all the way, etaso
lines in places, in other places lumber
wagons, and l would come to q railroad
beforeI reached the mountain. t
The next dag a stnse.coach came by,
and ! took passsga IN it for the South,
ard tho road for the first twenty miles lay
across the .Siskiyon mountain. Never
before had l been SO nearly iolted to death,
and emothered to death in dust, ea ] was
in crosging that mountain. Before I had
conc thirty miles I was 90 completely OK.
hausted that l was obliged to stop and
rest, and wait for another conveyance. BY
ono means and another I made my way
eouthwsrd, crossed the frontiers into Gall.
iornia, and at laat REACHED q railroad, and
thought my fluctuations over for a SEASON.
I WAC now travelingIowsrd Mt. Shasta,
md in two hours | WAS in sight Of the